I don’t know about you folks, but I’m sure glad that we’re out of this nasty old Bush recession, aren’t you? And so what if another 192,000 Americans had to lose their jobs in the month of October in order to prove the point, driving unemployment (or “Funemployment!”) to over 10%? That’s a small price to pay for progress. Don’t believe those numbers? Well then let’s take a look: Read the rest of this entry »

Crossposted from: http://paranoidpyro8503.blogspot.com/2009/10/it-could-be-worse-they-could-be-detno.html
Ladies and Gentlemen, roll up the windows and lock the doors, we’re about to take a trip through Detriot. Except for New Orleans post-Kartrina, Detroit is about the closest thing to a 3rd world country you can find east of the Mississippi River. I admittedly don’t know about border cities in the southwest, so I’ll confine my judgment a tad.

Michigan, you see, is part of America’s derisively named “Rust Belt,” the part of the northeast that used to be called the “Steel Belt” back in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. Michigan was once hailed as the car capital of the world, especially in the city of Detroit. But times change, and the steel and car jobs began leaking out of the country a long time ago. Now, a city like Detriot has “Unemployment Capital of the Country” as its most likely claim to fame. In fact, since 2000, Detroit’s unemployment rate has been much higher than that of the US, and usually double the unemployment of the state of Michigan itself: Read the rest of this entry »

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Crossposted from http://paranoidpyro8503.blogspot.com/2009/10/infamous-obama-unemployment-graph-part.html
Yes folks, I’m finally back, and with a vengence. I know you missed me, I missed you too, but we have lots to cover, so let’s get right down to it. I realize I’m a couple days late with this, but it’s been a long week (and a long month, but that’s neither here nor there) and so I have finally decided it is time to opine on the September unemployment numbers. But as the famous internet meme goes, “Useless without pictures!” so here is the chart you’ve all been waiting for (credit: geoff at Innocent Bystanders):

Today is the day. Can you feel the excitement? It’s the day the July unemployment numbers are released. I know you’re all anxious for the result, so without further ado I present you with the Infamous Obama Unemployment Graph for the month of JulyRead the rest of this entry »

Ah yes, many of us remember this graph from the past month (a copy of which can be found on this site), and here is the updated version with June’s numbers thrown in. Credit is to be given here. Odd, isn’t it, that even with the $1 trillion+ spending that President Obama wanted lest catastrophe strike us, here we are worse off according to his own prediction than we would have been without selling our souls to the Chinese.

(Cue dramatic Music) And so, being the lemming as most bloggers are (after all, current events and pictures are a sure way to get traffic from search engines like Google), I present to you the infamous Obama Unemployment Graph. Now, as most people can see from looking at the above chart, the Obama “stimulus” (note the sarcastic quotes I put there) has not done anything at all to stop unemployment and the loss of jobs. In fact that chart points out that even with the “stimulus” the unemployment rate is worse than what even Obama’s staff predicted it would be without spending trillions of dollars we don’t have. Now of course, these numbers can’t mean anything bad for President Obama. Even when Bush had low unemployment and a great economy, things were really bad we just didn’t know it. We obviously needed our betters in the media to point out to us that Bush’s sub 6% unemployment and 14,000+ Dow means that we were really in a recession and didn’t know it. Now with Obama….why with Obama 9%+ unemployment and a Dow hovering around 8,000 means the economy is the best it’s ever been. Why, even losing hundreds of thousands of jobs is a good sign! Just look at this piece from the AP: Read the rest of this entry »